Riddhima , as you lie shivering like an autumn life in this little cottage , your blood giving up on you and you giving up on life , I feel a strange lump in my throat. I don't think I have ever felt so guilty and helpless in my entire life.
Guilty . because I brought you here with the promise of uniting you with Armaan but i could do nothing. I saw him slip out of your life with my own eyes but I could not stop him. You walked towards the door of death and I could not stop you. I know how it is when dreams break . That is why i wanted a happy ending for you. I wish that was.....I really wish so....
Helpless, because you are lying like a helpless bleating lamb in front of me and I.... inspite of being your friend and a doctor cannot help you. I don't know what to do - I have never known the feeling that a doctor or even a human-being has when he sees a life ebbing out of a body in front of him. I am helpless Riddhima and I hate this feeling.
I am rather numbed at the moment as my own senses seem to be going in circles. Atul's words don't leave my mind . If I don't do anything to warm you up , we all will lose you. Yes , there is a way ..... and now , i know. It is the only way. I must warm you with my own body heat......the very thought sends my own mind in a frenzy.
But I am walking towards you... to do it. I am blinding out all logic and only thinking of you ....to see you open your eyes again even if it is just to scream at me.
I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring. After what I am going to do , perhaps I will forever be black listed in your life. All the accusations that you have made against me till date will ring true to you. And this little moonlight of a friendship , civility and smiles that we had arrived upon will disappear into the dark forever. You will detest the very sight of me and I will once again lose my honour.......it sounds easy but i know how tough it will be to face everything. I don't know if i am prepared to face you or the world at daybreak.
It is stupid but I am still expecting somewhere... a little bird of a hope that maybe you will understand that whatever I did was to save your life. If you do not , well, i really don't know what i will do.
Riddhima, you are not my friend , not my relative , not a loved one - but you are somebody who deserves to live like anyone else. And if you die only because i held back , i shall never be able to go to sleep again in my life . I cannot live with the thought that i let you die only because i didn't want you to misunderstand me.
Forgive me , Riddhima. You will never know what it feels like to see someone suffer and inch towards death and not be able to do anything about it. I am doing what i can do.
I am ready for the future. And if I am not , I will still put up the best face I can.
I don't know why I am saying this but .... I AM SORRY.
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